Following a county judge of Los Angeles, Erik and Lyle Menendez at 50 for life, Governor Gavin Newsom withdrew his request for a leniency investigation, transforming a hearing scheduled for the council of parole in an opportunity for the brothers to be granted to early release.
This decision rationalizes the potential path to freedom for the brothers who have served more than 35 years in prison since their conviction for having killed their parents with hunting rifles in 1989.
“We are grateful to Judge Jesic for his courage and his loyalty to the law. We hope that the governor will write the last chapter of the brothers’ liberation,” said their lawyer, Mark Geragos.
Tuesday, the judge of the Superior Court of the County of the, Michael Jesic, modified the initial sentence of the brothers without parole at 50 years for life, which, under the Youth Act of the State delinquents, makes the brothers immediately eligible for parole because the fire occurred before the 26th.
On Wednesday, the Conditional Liberations Commission informed the legal representatives that the Governor was no longer pursuing Clemence’s surveys due to the decision to change the sorrows of the brothers.
“Given that the decision immediately makes them eligible for the consideration of parole as offenders for young people, it is the intention of the board of directors to convert the Clémence audiences of the board of directors to the initial adequacy of parole,” said Scott Wyckoff, executive director of the parole council in a letter.
During hearings, a panel of commissioners could consider the brothers adapted to parole, but it would not be the end of the process. A 90 -day exam period would follow, and Newsom could still block their release – although it is not clear if this would occur since his request for withdrawal accelerates the path of freedom.
During a parole hearing, the brothers will have to take responsibility for their crimes and affirm the commissioners that they are unlikely to reoffend. They made statements in this vein in Jesic through a flow of prison cameras on Tuesday.
“My actions were criminal, selfish, cruel and cowardly,” said Erik Menendez. “I have no excuse, no justification for what I did. … I take full responsibility for my crimes. “
Lyle also said that he had not made “no excuse” for causing his mother and his father with explosions of shotgun, and apologized to nearly two dozen parents who have spent years fighting for his release.
“I’m really sorry for each of you,” Lyle told court on Tuesday. “I lied to you and I forced you to a projector of public humiliation that you have never asked.”
At the hearing on Tuesday, dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman argued that the brothers had not shown an appropriate “insight” on their crimes and had not expired lies they have told in the last 30 years of the nature of the murders, but Jesic rejected these arguments as unrelevant. The prosecutors had to prove that the brothers posed an unreasonable risk for the public, according to Jesic, who said that they had not done.
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